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Thorn vs Bramble - What's the difference?

thorn | bramble |

As nouns the difference between thorn and bramble

is that thorn is a sharp protective spine of a plant while bramble is common blackberry.

As a verb thorn

is to pierce with, or as if with, a thorn.

As a proper noun Thorn

is {{surname|topographic|from=Middle English}} for someone living near a thorn bush.

thorn

English

(wikipedia thorn)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sharp protective spine of a plant.
  • Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns.
    • the white thorn'''; the cockspur '''thorn
  • (figurative) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
  • * Bible, 2 Corinthians xii. 7
    • There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.
  • * South
    • The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares, / Be only mine.
  • A letter of the Latin alphabet (capital:'' Þ''', ''small:'' '''þ'''), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English '' '''th igh
  • * See also Etymology of ye (definite article).

    • Derived terms

    * thorn apple * thorn broom * thornbush * thorn devil * thorn hopper * thorn in one's side * Thornton * thorny

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pierce with, or as if with, a
  • * {{quote-book, year=1869, author=, title=Old Town Folks citation
    • , passage=
  • * {{quote-book, year=2003, author=Scott D. Zachary, title=Scorn This, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=HELSK5JtSbMC&pg=PA175, page=175
    • , passage=Even Judge Bradley's callused sentiments were thorned by the narration of Jaclyn's journals.}}

    See also

    * eth, edh, * wynn, wen, *

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    bramble

    English

    (wikipedia bramble)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) Common blackberry.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
    • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles , an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
  • (label) Any of several closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus , including blackberry and raspberry.
  • Any thorny shrub.
  • A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.

    • Derived terms

    * stone bramble * brambled * brambling